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About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart by Nell Shipman Third Revised Edition - 2001 9780932129048 $24.95 Nell's secret for working with wild animals who could sense and would react dan read more

In the middle of the depression, Edna (Sally Field) and her family seem to be one of the few lucky people in a small Texas town still living comfortably on a steady income, until her husband is accidentally killed by a drunk black man.  Suddenly, after years of only doing housework and raising kids, read more

(1995) Directed by Yoshifumi Kondo; Written by Hayao Miyazaki Available on DVD Rating: ****  The Japanese-animated Whisper of the Heart is the sort of film that could never have emerged from the Hollywood system.  Its deliberate (some might say slow) pacing, allows the viewer to be i read more

As has been mentioned a couple dozen times over the past two weeks, today is the day I get to talk about one of my top three favorite Disney films of all time, 1950′s Cinderella. Everyone knows the story of the orphaned cinder girl who works for her evil stepmother and sister(s) and then, with read more

This deliciously creepy 'toon is definitely not for the kids. James Mason flawlessly narrates a surreal animated version of the classic Poe tale. Mason had such a talent for creating crazed, but strangely sympathetic villains. His tone fits the bleak, mysterious animation perfect read more

There Goes My Heart (1938). Cast:Virginia Bruce and Fredric March. The film is based on a story byEd Sullivan, better known for his TV show.Click to view , There Goes My Heart, movie trailer. Heiress Joan Butterfield wanting to get out from under the control her grandfather, sneaks away from their read more

Whoa, it's Valentine's Day?! Where did January go?! We are busy girls, and we apologize. But I simply couldn't let this day go by without posting our favorite valentines :o) read more

I love the charmingly stylish silohuettes in this opening credits sequence for the Janet Gaynor comedy The Young In Heart (1938). Not only are they lovely, but they establish the spirit of the movie wonderfully. (The movie itself is also pretty darn good.) read more

"The Mothering Heart" (1913) is one of the best Biograph shorts under the direction of D.W. Griffith, an American pioneer film maker. It was also the first of the Biograph films to feature Lillian Gish in a leading role. This two-reel drama begins with a young woman, played by Lillian Gish, marryin read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. It's that time of year. The 81st Academy Awards are in a few short weeks and everyone is a buzz with Oscar fever. To honor the Oscars I wanted to talk about something very few people know read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. If reading his biography wasn't enough (read my review of it here), watching the great Ernest Borgnine on TCM's Private Screenings made me half-fall in love with the man. Borgnine is a ch read more

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. I must share my love for Bobby Darin with you... with the world. When most people hear his name, they automatically think "Splish, Splash", "Dream Lover" and Sandra Dee. My mind's image o read more

12 Angry Men (1957) is a very ambiguous film and it's open to many interpretations. On one hot summer day in the 1950s, 12 jurors meet in a room to come to a verdict in a murder trial. Everything seems to be going against the teenage boy whose father was stabbed to death with a knife. The evidence i read more

"And here came the Carletons, a merry little streamlined family exuding charm and a touch of larceny with every fortune-hunting smile..." Producer David O. Selznick was in a bind. Gone With the Wind was costing his production company Selznick International Pictures a lot of money and they read more

I am in the throws of a heartfelt crush with Jack Klugman. My what a fine actor. What a great smile. What a lifespan! Jack Klugman is still with us at the ripe age of 89. And he has worked with everyone from Henry Fonda to Frank Sinatra to to Jack Lemmon to his dear old friend Tony Randall. I admire read more

Quincy M.E. is a TV show starring Jack Klugman as the title character. It aired from 1976 to 1983 and is well-known as the antecedent to the popular CSI and forensic TV shows of today. It's a formulaic show in which Quincy, a Medical Examiner for the Coroner's Office in L.A., solves murders. Each sh read more

"And here came the Carletons, a merry little streamlined family exuding charm and a touch of larceny with every fortune-hunting smile..." Producer David O. Selznick was in a bind. Gone With the Wind was costing his production company Selznick International Pictures a lot of money and they read more

The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart by Nell Shipman Third Revised Edition - 2001 9780932129048 $24.95 Nell's secret for working with wild animals who could sense and would react dangerously to human fear: "Truth is, I was afraid to be scared. I operated on fear like a surgeon and somehow read more

The Odd Couple was a television series that aired from 1970 to 1975 and starred Jack Klugman as Oscar and Tony Randall as Felix. The original story was a Neil Simon play that was performed on Broadway. The Broadway production had Walter Matthau as Oscar. Matthau would later reprise his role as Oscar read more

Jack Klugman has a minor role a good Jewish cop in the non-Tony Rome/Frank Sinatra film The Detective (1968). He plays Officer Dave Schoenstein, whom besides Sinatra's Detective Joe Leland, is probably the most decent cop among the bunch. And he's the one cop that comes through for Sinatra in the en read more